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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: Last week, I showed the Taoiseach the horrible, discoloured water the residents of Mount Farran in Blackpool on the northside of Cork city were having to put up with. When I put the video of our exchange up on my social media, I got messages from people in Gurranabraher, the Glen, Mayfield, Spring Lane, Dublin Hill, Ballyvolane, Shanakiel, Blarney Street, Wellington Road and elsewhere, to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: 1. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the publication of Understanding Life in Ireland: The Well-Being Framework 2024. [36690/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: I will start by making an observation. Two deadlines have been mentioned: 30 November and December 2025. As I understand the situation, and I stand to be corrected, 30 November is the deadline for the Department to legislate. If that deadline is missed, the issue will go into the basket for the European Union to make the decision. Is that correct? If that is the case-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: There is a process in place but there is a decision to be made in the next six weeks. It seems there is a strong feeling and mood across the board at this meeting that we should steer our own ship. We should put our hands up and say that Ireland wants to legislate in this regard. I do not know if the Chair wants to take a recommendation from the committee at the end of the meeting but we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: Those are interesting points and there is a lot of food for thought. Before we conclude our business today, we might come back to that issue of the deadline of 30 November and what type of message we will send the Department in that context.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: With the support of south Kilkenny.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his hosting of the competitiveness summit on 1 September 2024. [36689/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme in his Department. [38045/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: I congratulate the former workers of the Before 5 Family Centre in Churchfield and the parents whose children attended it. Between them, they have been successful in putting sufficient pressure on the Department of children to force the release of €300,000 to pay for the works needed for the centre to reopen in 2025. At the same time that people on the northside of Cork city are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (15 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: The residents of the Mount Farron estate in Blackpool on Cork's northside have been dealing week in and week out since mid-July with dirty and discoloured water. Since last Saturday morning, there has been an unrelenting stream of urine coloured water. Let us leave aside how people have a cup of tea. How do they do their laundry or have a shower? Residents asked me to bring a sample of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (15 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [38044/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: I offer my congratulations to the parents, staff and children of St. Killian's Special School who have successfully campaigned to get HSE funding to hire therapists. I fully agree with the principal, Sue Lenihan, and parents' representative, Eibhlín Gleeson, who have welcomed this short-term solution although they demand a permanent one. The €40,000 will have to be stretched to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: Will the school be funded in January?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: The Tánaiste gave out a lot of statistics but he did not point to the fact that services have had to increase, and rightly so. He also did not point to the fact that there are big increases in the population. He also did not indicate how much of the new staffing is on the basis of hire of agency workers. These workers are more expensive and often have considerably less skill and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: It is not an incursion; it is an invasion.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. What a cowardly and craven performance by the Taoiseach in Washington last night, by the way. I wish to address what has happened in our health services on the Tánaiste's watch. Ten minutes from now, trade unionists will assemble at the gates of the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore and at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda to protest against the...

Spending of Public Funds by the Government: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: We need to talk about private procurement, phone pouches, security huts and bike sheds. The bike shed is actually illustrative of what goes on. A total of €336,000 of public money was spent on a shed for 18 bikes. There has been much media commentary to the effect that this is what happens when the State is in charge of a project or when the public sector is involved with one. The...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil: Motion (8 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: Not agreed.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil: Motion (8 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: The reason the Chief Whip is asking the Dáil to approve a new start time is to enable the Taoiseach to both take Leaders' Questions and catch a plane to the United States. The Taoiseach will be flying over to meet President Biden, ostensibly to celebrate 100 years of diplomatic relations, but in reality to celebrate Joe Biden's presidency before he leaves office.